Katriona O'Sullivan

I don't actually think I am them things.

Like I am actually the girl who likes to read books and write stories.

And I'm actually coming back to what I think I was originally meant to be.

Not that I am not really happy and grateful for my education, but there is, I think, a part of us.

We find the thing that we really like and hopefully we can all find our ways to it.

And writing is something I'll always do, I think, even if I'm publishing books or not.

You've got to seek permission, don't you?

No.

So, yeah, this is a really good question actually about memoirs.

People ask me a lot.

Like one of the biggest responses I get is people come up, I want to tell my story.

The thing about that is it's important to say this, right?

Everybody has a really important story.

Everybody's life is important.

But it doesn't mean that everyone is going to want to read your life or know your life.

But a lot of people don't want to write a book.

They want to be seen and heard.

And they really feel that they haven't been seen and heard.

And that what's happened to them hasn't been acknowledged.

And so when anyone says to me, I want to write my story, I'll say, do you want to be heard and be sure of that?